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Speaking of RSS feed links, shame on Apple for hijacking feed links on iOS. They open Apple News but just generate a dialog that says "This content is not avail
by jdofaz 7y ago
Speaking of RSS feed links, shame on Apple for hijacking feed links on iOS. They open Apple News but just generate a dialog that says "This content is not available on Apple News"
- JustSomeNobody 7y agoThey were just trying to make it user friendly because they know everyone really wants to go to Apple News instead. /s
- freehunter 7y agoiOS these days has a major problem of allowing webpages to redirect automatically to the app or worse, to the App Store. Every now and again I have to fight Amazon to let me open a link in Safari instead of the Amazon app. Generally it's because I cannot purchase the item inside of the app (digital content like movies and Kindle books), but they still automatically open the app and make me do a dance to get it in Safari. Same thing with Yelp, under no circumstances am I ever able to get a Yelp link to open on their website. YouTube does the same thing, and I've had Gmail do it a few times too. It's one thing to show a banner at the top letting me know you have an app. But I never want to be directed from Safari into an app. If I wanted to use the app, I'd have opened the app. Since I'm in Safari, it means I want to use the web site.
- scarface74 7y agoWhy have the apps installed at all? There is nothing I can do in the apps that I can’t do on the websites. Usually the apps are worse.
- mcgrath_sh 7y agoWatching ESPN in the browser is a worse experience than ESPN’s app. I have the app on my phone for this. There are reasons to have apps on a phone. That said, it is infuriating that when I click an ESPN link on twitter, it opens in the ESPN app and not a web browser.
- scarface74 7y agoOften for video content, there isn’t a choice but to have the app on mobile. But for non video content, the app is usually worse. Also, I much rather go to the Youtube site on mobile than use the app.
- TylerE 7y agoDepends. The ESPN app is actually pretty shit. On my Smart TV it is a juddering, frame dropping mess. I actually get better streams by opening the ESPN site in Chrome, and casting the tab.
- scarface74 7y agoAll Smart TVs suck except the ones with integrated Roku.
- TylerE 7y agoIt’s not the TV. I stream 4k60 from YouTube quite happily.
- scarface74 7y agoIt’s the “smart” part that I was referring to. The Roku TV’s panels are just average.
- TylerE 7y agoIt's the "smart" part responsible for decoding the incoming bytestream.
- saagarjha 7y agoYeah, the user experience for this is awful. Apple News (and Safari!) both used to support RSS feeds and then they removed the feature from both.